Western Red Cedar is quite plentiful here, and speculation about using it as a speaker building material go back over 10 years.

Bernie recently rekindled that interest, and finding that an Italian hi-end tone arm maker had tested a huge swath of materials for arm wands and ended up choosing cedar really goosed us to get going on it.

Bernie has a set of proto Mar-Kel70mT in cedar -- they are making the rounds, but initial testing was very promising.

The vision for these flat-paks is to provide something very hard to screw up in assembly - being solid some care with finishing will be needed. Alot of pre-assembly will be done here.